Creative commons images

There has been a bit of a fuss recently over Flickr’s decision to start selling prints of it’s members photographs. There is a potential 50 million images that Flickr can sell but the uproar has come from the fact that the photographers will not see a single cent of any picture sold. The reason for this? The Creative Commons license. Flickr is exploiting this license to monetize the images it hosts and despite the protestations of the photographers who will lose out in this, they are legally…

Creative Commons is a licensing system that identifies how content, such as music or images, can be legally used by others for free. It is a simple way to determine if an online file, made by someone else, can be included in a publication, video, or other project. A Creative Commons license informs others about they can and cannot do when using another’s work.

CC Search lets you search through 300 million images that are free to use under a Creative Commons license.

Welcome to the seventh step in our free professional learning series on class and student blogging! The aim of this step is to: Discuss copyright, fair use, and using images on blogs. Introduce you…

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free stock image of Close Up of Blue Thumb Tack Pin Location Marker Inserted in Map of Berlin, Germany, creative commons license

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